Media Releases - 08 May 2024 - Deforestation - Australia wide Albanese government attempts to weaken international action on forests instead of addressing rampant deforestation As rampant deforestation for beef pasture expansion, logging and mining continues across the contine...
Media Releases - 06 May 2024 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Landmark appeal over right to criminally prosecute alleged illegal logging in Tasmania’s Valley of the Giants The Wilderness Society has filed a landmark appeal in the Supreme Court of Tasmania over its right t...
Media Releases - 01 May 2024 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Conservationists announce support for Southwest Dark Sky Sanctuary in Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Conservationists in Lutruwita / Tasmania have declared their support for a Dark Sky Sanctuary within...
Media Releases - 16 April 2024 - Laws - Australia wide Government announces a form of ‘EPA’ but forests still hanging in the balance Establishing ‘Environment Protection Australia’ with enforcement powers will not alone remedy the ex...
Jobs - 12 April 2024 Volunteer - Committee of Management The TWS Victoria Committee of Management (CoM) are currently looking for individuals who are committ...
News - 09 April 2024 - Lake Eyre Basin Protect the Great Artesian Basin, reject Glencore’s carbon pollution injection pilot project The Wilderness Society does not support the proposed pilot project to inject liquid carbon dioxide i...
Media Releases - 07 April 2024 - Fossil fuels - Australia wide Esso’s Bass Strait pipeline spill shows the consequences of the deliberate delaying of cleaning up Australia’s ageing oil and gas infrastructure On 6 April 2024 oil and gas company Esso reported a hydrocarbon spill into the ocean, believed to b...
Media Releases - 03 April 2024 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Thousands of Tasmania’s giant trees could be spared following policy change Thousands of Tasmanian trees may now be protected from logging following changes announced last Frid...
Media Releases - 28 March 2024 - Tasmania Forests - Tasmania Court denies the Wilderness Society’s right to criminally charge state logging agency amidst looming questions of illegality A decision handed down in Launceston Magistrates Court today has denied the Wilderness Society's rig...
Media Releases - 27 March 2024 - Deforestation - Queensland Albanese government fails to monitor deforestation, leaving it to citizen scientists to uncover potentially illegal clearing The work of citizen scientists has laid bare the staggering lack of federal government monitoring of...